Arkansas police say 12-year-old Aniyah Dilworth died in a car crash after her father was racing the driver of another vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. The street race happened in North Little Rock. Screenshot from Biran Emfinger's Twitter

Arkansas police say 12-year-old Aniyah Dilworth died in a car crash after her father was racing the driver of another vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. The street race happened in North Little Rock. Screenshot from Biran Emfinger's Twitter

A case of suspected street racing killed a 12-year-old girl, police say, and sent three others to the hospital with "significant injuries."

The crash happened just after 12 p.m. Wednesday in North Little Rock, Arkansas, after two drivers were engaged in an apparent racing competition, police told KATV. There were two people in each car, police say, and the vehicles "appeared to be racing one another and were traveling at extremely high rates of speed."

Police told the newspaper that an investigation into the crash is ongoing, including the exact speed of the cars on the 40 mph road.

Sgt. Amy Cooper, from the North Little Rock Police Department, said the accident — while already "horribly tragic" — could have ended with the loss of other people's lives.

There are "people who walk every day, go to [the] park every day, walk dogs every day, live very close to the roadway, like apartments behind us here," she told Fox16. "As tragic as this accident is, we're just very fortunate no bystanders were injured during this incident."

A woman fleeing a non-injury crash at 39th Street and Gillham Road traveled down Euclid Avenue, ran a stop sign and t-boned another car at the intersection of 35th Street, causing a death Tuesday afternoon, Kansas City police said.